Hannis, M. and Sullivan, S. in press. Relationality, reciprocity, flourishing in an African landscape. In Hartman, L.M. (ed.) That All May Flourish: Comparative Religious Environmental Ethics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sullivan, S. 2018 On possibilities for salvaged polyphonic ecologies in a ruined world. Invited commentary on Tsing, A.L. 2015 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Dialogues in Human Geography 8(1): 69-72.

Sullivan, S. 2017 What’s ontology got to do with it? On nature and knowledge in a political ecology of ‘the green economy’. Journal of Political Ecology 24: 217-242, Special section entitled ‘Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities’, edited by Cavanagh, C.J. and Benjaminsen, T.A.

Sullivan, S. 2016What’s ontology got to do with it? On the knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in environmental anthropology, pp. 155-169 in Kopnina, H. and Shoreman-Ouimet, E. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Environmental Anthropology. London: Routledge.

Sullivan, S. and Low, C. 2014 Shades of the rainbow serpent? A KhoeSān animal between myth and landscape in southern Africa – ethnographic contextualisations of rock art representations. The Arts3(2): 215-244, special issue on World Rock Art,

Sullivan, S. 2014 Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an animate nature. In Büscher, B., Dressler, W. and Fletcher, R. (eds.) Nature™Inc: New Frontiers of Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age. University of Arizona Press.

Sullivan, S. 2013 Banking nature? The spectacular financialisation of environmental conservation. Antipode 45(1): 198-217. [This is the final iteration of a conference paper entitled The environmentality of ‘Earth Incorporated’: on contemporary primitive accumulation and the financialisation of environmental conservation’, presented at the conference A Brief Environmental History of Neoliberalism, Lund University, Sweden, May 2010. In March 2011 it also constituted the basis for an open online seminar run by the Open Anthropology Cooperative, which can be viewed here.]

Sullivan, S. 2013 Nature on the Move III: (Re)countenancing an animate nature. New Proposals:Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Enquiry. Third part of a triptych of papers on the theme of ‘Nature on the Move’, with the first authored by political scientist Bram Büscher, the second authored by anthropologistJim Igoe. Our introduction to the triptych is here.

‘Viva nihilism!’ On militancy and machismo in (anti-)globalisation protest, in Devetak, R. and Hughes, C. (eds.) Globalization of Political Violence: Globalization’s Shadow, Warwick Studies in Globalisation, Routledge, London. This is an edited version of a working paper published in 2005 here.

‘Shell to Sea’ in Ireland: building social movement potency, Non-Governmental Public Action (NGPA) Working Paper Series 5 (with Salter, K.).

‘We are heartbroken and furious!’ Rethinking violence and the (anti-)globalisation movements’, pp. 175-194 in Maiguashca, B. and Eschle, C. (eds.) Critical Theories, World Politics and ‘the Anti-globalisation Movement’, London, Routledge. Based on a working paper published in 2004 here.

Detail and dogma, data and discourse: food-gathering by Damara herders and conservation in arid north-west Namibia, pp. 63-99 in Homewood, K. (ed.) Rural Resources and Local Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. James Currey and University of Wisconsin Press, Oxford.

Protest, conflict and litigation: dissent or libel in resistance to a conservancy in north-west Namibia, pp. 69-86 in Berglund, E. and Anderson, D. (eds.) Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege. Oxford, Berghahn Press.

Qualitative research, pp. 57-74 in Scheyvens, R. and Storey, D. (eds.) Fieldwork and Development Studies: a Rough Guide. London, Sage Publications. (with Brockington, D.). Reworked as a working paper published in 2004 entitled ‘Qualitative methods in globalisation studies: or, saying something about the world without counting or inventing it’.

Review of Anderson, D. and Broch-Due, V. (eds.) 1999 ‘The Poor are not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism in Eastern Africa’, James Currey, East African Educational Publishing and Ohio University Press, Oxford, Nairobi and Athens. The Journal of Modern African Studies.41(4).

‘Anger is a gift!’ Or is it? Engaging with violence in the (anti-)globalisation movement(s). CSGR Newsletter10: 11-14.

How sustainable is the communalising discourse of ‘new’ conservation? The masking of difference, inequality and aspiration in the fledgling ‘conservancies’ of Namibia, pp. 158-187 In Chatty, D. and Colchester, M. (eds.) Conservation and Mobile Indigenous people: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development. Oxford, Berghahn Press.

‘How can the rain fall in this chaos?’ Myth and metaphor in representations of the north-west Namibian landscape, pp. 255-265, 315-317 in LeBeau, D. and Gordon, R.J. (eds.) Challenges for Anthropology in the ‘African Renaissance’: A Southern African Contribution, University of Namibia Press, Publication Number 1.

Inventory and review of ethnobotanical research in Namibia: first steps towards a central ‘register’ of published indigenous plant knowledge. NBRI Contributions 3. National Botanical Research Institute, Windhoek. (With Craven, P.).

Review of Kinahan, Jill. 2000 ‘Cattle for beads: the archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib coast’. Dept. of Archaeology & Ancient History and Namibia Archaeological Trust, University of Uppsala and Windhoek. Cimbebasia 17: 258-260.

Gambling with risk. Review of Mortimore, M. 1998 ‘Roots in the African Dust: sustaining the drylands’ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 6(4): 751-752.

1999The impacts of people and livestock on topographically diverse open wood-and shrub-lands in arid north-west Namibia. Global Ecology and Biogeography (Special Issue on Degradation of Open Woodlands) 8: 257-277.

The ‘communalization’ of former commercial farmland: perspectives from Damaraland and implications for land reform. Windhoek: Social Sciences Division of the Multidisciplinary Research Centre, University of Namibia, Research Report 25.

People and plants on communal land in Namibia: the relevance of indigenous range and forest management practices, and land tenure systems, to in situ plant genetic resources conservation in the arid and semi-arid regions of Namibia. Consultancy report, International Plant Genetic Resources Institute and the National Botanical Research Institute of Namibia.

1995
The impact of the utilization of palm products on the population structure of the Vegetable Ivory Palm (Hyphaene petersiana, Arecaceae) in north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49(4): 357-370. (with Konstant, T.L. and Cunningham, A.B.).

The effects of utilization by people and livestock on Hyphaene petersiana (Arecaceae) basketry resources in the palm savanna of north-central Namibia. Economic Botany 49(4): 345-356. (with Konstant, T.L. and Cunningham, A.B.).